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IIRC Visual Basic 6 was good in many ways but in (at least two) areas, it wasn’t: * re-laying out the UI controls when the user resized the app window * nicely
by stevoski 3y ago
IIRC Visual Basic 6 was good in many ways but in (at least two) areas, it wasn’t:
* re-laying out the UI controls when the user resized the app window
* nicely handling long-running tasks, with progress updates, allowing user interruption
In both cases the “drag and drop controls, then connect them to each other with a smattering of code” paradigm didn’t work too well.
- unsupp0rted 3y agoVB6 was pretty good at re-layout: you could do sticky corners and buttons and controls would move and expand when you maximized the window. Also since you were writing code behind control events, you could easily bind 2 buttons to the same function: one button visible on normal state, the other visible in maximized state, etc